Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power;… — Alex Carey Copy Share Image
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
New Rule: The rest of the world can go back to being completely jealous of America. Our majority white country just freely… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
